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| shared products of a human group or society. |
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| abstract and intangible human creations such as definitions of right and wrong and enviroment and way of doing things. |
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| a body of phusical objects that reflect nonmaterial cultural meanings. |
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| fixed, biologically inherited complez behavior patterns; instead of culture |
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| anything that a group of people have agreed upon as a way of meaningfully representing something other than itself. |
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| human speech in both its spoken and written forms. most important set of symbols |
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| an idea shared by the people in a society about what is good and bad, right and wrong, desirble and undesirble. |
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| expectations of how people are supposed to act, think, or feel in specific situations (formal or informal). |
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| (social customs). Norms against behavior that have little strength and within broad limits may be broken. |
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| Norms that are almost sacred and violations them will result in serious consequences |
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| formal norms, usually mores, that have been enacted by the state to regulate human conduct |
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| a process known as social control and that can be positive or negative. |
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| a set of cultural beliefs that legitimates or justifies the interests of a class, group, in its struggle with other groups for prestige and dominance |
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| cultures share many basic social structures and cultural meanings |
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| tendency to evaluate other cultures in terms of ones own and automatically evaluate one's culture as superior |
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| one cant truly understand or evaluate cutural triats except in terms of the larger cultural and social system of which they are a part. |
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| group of people living with in a society that has a style of living not found in other groups... ex: surfing community |
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| a subculture that directly challenges the values, beliefs, ideals, institutions, or other central aspects of the dominant cultures. |
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| cultural traits are logically consistent with one another. |
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